The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-11-18

and says: ..Yes, of course. forgot, =
in way to astonish me more. and tc
set me wondering and thinking until /;
feeling akin to resentment is quite
prominent, if not paramount, in my
breast.
why, haven't 1 ben do-un thata
way all the time?" l ask, with rising
iniiexion on the latter part of the SEN
tence She walks rapidly past me.
brushing my right side with her new
white ard brown check gingham
dress, sending thrill of something
from my crown TO my soles. Then
she goes swiftly TO the door and closes
it almost. with quick movement, bu,
at the very last holds it an inch from
the casing and peeps through the
crack while size seems to be manipu-
lating the latch in the &c; of shuttin.
it completely. Somehow l remember
that movement and dwell upon il
interchangeable too much. Then she
comes slowly toward me, smiling and
biting bit of something that ) be holds
unconsciously in her hand. see that
il is little twig of willow, and 1 Won
der where she got it.
"Why. yes" she answers, in a very
surprised way. ''Of course you have.
But l thought -
Ard here she stopped because the
door opening admitted the slender, tall
and agreeably smiling gentleman al
ready noted for having driven the
splendid bays. and cut the pigeon
wing" on the door-sill.
Hope l amt intruding." he says,
coming forward on his tip toes, and
beaming that very frank and winning
smile of his. Il didn't git back in
time fur the first table l walked down
to the river to rest my legs after the
days drive. What purity willow
switches! And such lot NV um.'
His face was toward me. and his
black eyes were upon Polly AIMS
brown ones. Somehow l had had a
prejudice against him from the moment
he had pulled up in the river bottom,
and asked me the way to Bogus Lcath-
woods. Now; l suddenly coupled his
smiling remark about the willow switch
.es with the movement OF Polly Ann ut
the door and the willow twig between
her white teeth and her red lips, and
my prejudice deepened and broaicned.
20. no." Polly Ann hastens to say,
and turning quite away from ME 10
say it. Were jist waitun h-yur fur
the second table" Then she looks as
if she were going to say something
more, smiles and ilushes little under
his admiring gaze and looks down at
his unusually small and neat-fitting tlnc
boots, into which his doe-Skin trousers
are jauntily fitted at the high tops as
If made expressly for that mode of
wearing.
Then I'm in good time for my sup
per in agreeable company" he says,
in that easy familiar way that 1 never
could assume in the company of women,
and that l don't see how any right
minded man can assume. Confound
their Impotence! That's what it is.
But then the women seem to pardon it
very readily.
Polly Ann is silently attentive and
appreciative while he launches out in
a stream of somewhat disconnected re-
marks. all of them genuine bon mots of
rare humor as then firmly believed.
/ could not remember them a minute.
And from this noU know it was the
fellows manner, and not what he said.
Whatever it was, I never saw the
charming Polly laugh so much as she
did that evening. Three of her girl
companions of the village coming in,
accidentally, Of course, but undoubt-
eddy in time for supper, were intro
duced to Mr.. Martin BY the young